Inclusión de los recicladores de base en Ecuador. Propuesta regulatoria a partir de las buenas prácticas en la región latinoamericana

Abstract

This research work carries out an analysis of legislation compared, between the Ecuadorian regulatory framework and countries such as: Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Regarding their public policies and regulatory policies that have allowed the inclusion of waste pickers within their legislation. It’s so through the policies achievements of other countries, with conditions similar to ours, various responses have been built so that there are proposals for various ways to include waste pickers within the chain of integral municipal solid waste management, and restore their rights for the activity carried out as a public service that it provides to citizens. The comparative, dogmatic and historical method has been used to know the jurisprudence of other countries and to contrast with the Ecuadorian regulation. The main results that have emerged from this investigative process, were that Ecuadorian municipalities need to carry out a normative development through municipal ordinance, under a circular economy approach which develops the multiple responsibilities of the municipal decentralized autonomous governments, granted in the regulations to the environmental law, seeking recognition of the activity of waste pickers within the Ecuadorian municipalities.